soot-ball
soot-ball is the alternative form of sootball.
Meaning of sootball
Noun
sootball (plural sootballs)
- A ball of soot or ash.
- If you tell Brown and me (as you have) that the doctor is a dram-drinker, what is to hinder us from telling the story to others, with a few embellishments, perhaps ? And so the snowball (the sootball rather) would be set rolling.1870, The Tract magazine; or, Christian miscellany
Forms of soot-ball
| plural | soot-balls |
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Questions about soot-ball
- What is soot-ball the alternative form of?
- Soot-ball is the alternative form of sootball.
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